Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

[Song Ma]

Thanks guys. I didn't realize there are such tools existed already.

2008/12/4 Cheng Renquan <crquan@×××××.com>

> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Song Ma <songmash@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > With Gentoo if the user runs "emerge --update --newuse --deep world", the
> > config file under "/etc" may be updated and get the new config file named
> as
> > "._cfg0000_xxxx", for example,  "._cfg0000_ntp.conf". Normally I will
> > compare this newly updated config file with my existing one, then decide
> if
> > I am going to override the existing one with new one or discard the new
> one
> > since I must keep my existing setting. It is not very efficient to do
> these
> > actions with command lines such as "diff", "cp" or "mv" one by one. I
> wrote
> > a tool with text menu to help Gentoo user compare and copy new the new
> > config file conveniently. Does anyone have interest about it? What should
> I
> > do if I want to make it open source and maintain it for Gentoo users?
>
> Why not use dispatch-conf ?
>
> >
> > A screen shot for the tool use:
> >
> >
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